Mu'd Point

[Rick Vosper]

At 10:20 AM 7/11/97 -0400, Erik Pole writes:


>With the paranoid suspicion we could be asking too much of mu here ("Does
>this connection in Pynchon's text have the Buddha-Nature?"), I'd like to
>offer a suggestion: this could be another dividing point between the
>Western Enlightenment (science) and Buddhism's Enlightenment (satori)-- mu
>to Buddha 
>represents a variable of non-analysis-- to fill it with anything or nothing
>is wrong, mu to physics represents a variable of analysis-- it is filled
>with different values to produce practical results.

Very interesting! There's also a Schrodinger's Cat interpretation: you
don't know which mu is which until you look (in the glass, or talk to the
Dog).

--rick